It's true
I won't go into detail because of anonymity, but he already had a lot of his own issues with depression. Combine that with being surrounded by
all the time with no real human concerns, hearing that people back home were dying every few months from a shooting, trying to hold down jobs while getting through school, homie couldn't take it and just snapped. I found out about it after it happened, knew he had problems with the school but I didn't know it was that bad.
In engineering a lot of people drop out after the first struggle year anyway/leave, but for the Black students from the US it was way worse. Didn't think he'd kill himself
I have mixed feelings on it now because I was upset about it but most of the time when I think about how selfish it is I just get angry. I saw what he put other people through and his mom who had to deal with her only son going away to a prestigious school and offing himself because he cracked under the pressure
I was determined that shyt could not be that serious--but I also came from a more stable background than he did, and for the most part I couldn't relate too much to his struggle, but I understood it. shyt was fukked up